An introduction to intercultural communication : identities in a global community

• Main Author: Jandt, Fred Edmund, 1944- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010
• Edition: 6th ed.
• Subjects: interkulturní komunikace; interkulturní komunikace > Spojené státy americké; mezinárodní komunikace; intercultural communication; intercultural communication > United States; international communication; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 9781412970105
• Physical Description: 1 sv. (různé stránkování) : il., mapy ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• The dispute over defining culture
• Defining communication as an element of culture
• Culture's influence on perception
• Barriers to intercultural communication
• Nonverbal communication
• Language as a barrier
• Dimensions of culture
• Dominant U.S. cultural patterns: using value orientation theory
• Comparative cultural patterns: Arab culture
• Women, families, and children
• Contact between cultures
• Immigration and acculturation
• Cultures within cultures
• Identity and subgroups.